{"id":27978,"date":"2021-09-14T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/dogs-and-racism-across-nigeria-south-africa-and-canada#id30583"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T21:07:00","slug":"a-personal-essay-by-sakiru-adebayo-about-dogs-and-racism-across-nigeria-south-africa-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-personal-essay-by-sakiru-adebayo-about-dogs-and-racism-across-nigeria-south-africa-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"A personal essay by Sakiru Adebayo about dogs and racism across Nigeria, South Africa, and Canada."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>During apartheid days, the South African police held memorial services for dogs that were killed by Black protesters. Today, we hear and know of white families that put their dogs, but not their Black maids, on medical insurance.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2021\/09\/even-dogs-are-racist\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Africa Is a Country<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/dogs-and-racism-across-nigeria-south-africa-and-canada\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        During apartheid days, the South African police held memorial services for dogs that were killed by Black protesters. Today, we hear and know of white families that put their dogs, but not their Black maids, on medical in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27979,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27978\/revisions\/27979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}